Hey, we've got two demos on the level just added 12 hours ago:

• Robert Axelsson did a nightmare run in 0:24.
• Stefan did the easy 100% in a time of 1:52.

Next, Shine has done four different marathons on the id levels:

• He improved Optic's previous nightmare run of ep2 by three seconds to get 6:39.
• He improved Marlo's easy run of ep3 by 10 seconds to get 3:10.
• He did the nightmare run of ep3 in a time of 5:50, finally filling all the holes in the marathon tables for the id levels.
• He improved his coop easy of ep1 run with Ravage by five seconds to get 2:25.

Matthias Belz improved both 100%s on The Crucible, giving him all four records there (a popular thing to do lately).

• Easy 100% in 1:49, 35 seconds faster than his previous demo.
• Nightmare 100% in 2:30, new.

And a bunch of other demos :)

• Daniel improved Peter's nightmare 100% of e1m5 by three seconds to get 1:39.
• Thomas Bergendorff improved the easy run of placebo by 13 seconds to get 2:06, using a torch as a shortcut ledge. Note that the easy run is the only demo ever done on this level....
• Ken improved his recent easy 100% of climb by two seconds to get 1:01.
• Qurre, a player who only did 4 demos on the flyer map in the past, stepped in and improved demo #2 on the list, my nightmare 100% of The Elektra Complex by 25 seconds to get a time of 1:56. He used a completely different route.
• Ravage and Shine did a nightmare run on e1m1 in a time of 0:24, three seconds faster than the current single player time.

Well it turned out to be about 13 hours instead of 12...so sue me :)

I just downloaded the new level reviewed at TeamShambler's level review site and decided to add it right away for a few reasons. It is rather small, so those of you who don't like big levels will be happy. It is rather non-linear, so there's many possible routes, especially for 100% demos. There seems to be plenty of ammo and health/armor to survive and kill everyone even on nightmare. The map is Coagula by Tim Elek. Be sure to read the review at teamshambler too.

There's still holes in the tables for that last set of levels I've added... but since it's been a while I think perhaps some of you have forgotten about them so I'm going to remind you :) Remember that a table filling demo doesn't have to be extremely fast or include all the tricks there can be in it....

• Nightmare run and 100% on a3 - The Journey Home.
• Nightmare run and 100% on czg04 - Numb Nimbus.
• Nightmare 100% on darkness - The Darkness Within.
• Nightmare run on dxm - Dextromethorphan.

I expect some table filling fun... I'll do another update (this time with demos) in about 12 hours.

Optic has improved several demos, not all of which are on the list (amazing)

• Nightmare run of ikspq4 in 2:17, 26 seconds faster than Jesse.
• Easy 100% of The Epoch Turning in 2:01, seven seconds faster than his previous record.
• Nightmare run of EvilDead Cabin in 1:05, three seconds faster than his previous demo.
• Easy run of black1 in 1:03, two seconds faster than himself again.
• Nightmare run of black1 in 1:16, 17 seconds faster than Stefan.
• Nightmare run of black2 in 1:10, 14 seconds faster than Stefan.

Daniel Magnusson now has all the records on Far Beyond Reality:

• He improved Mattias's easy 100% by 31 seconds to get 2:06.
• He did the first nightmare run in a time of 1:57.
• He also did the nightmare 100% in 4:39.

Thomas Stubgaard improved both of the 100%s on e1m8 again:

• Easy 100% in 0:56, three seconds faster.
• Nightmare 100% in 1:24, one second faster.

Thomas Bergendorff did two demos:

• He improved his easy 100% of dxm by seven seconds to get 1:47.
• Remember how we thought it was impossible to get the one secret on damaul3b? Well Thomas showed that it isn't, he did an easy 100% with both secrets in a time of 1:13. Because it's so hard to do it though, we will still not require it for a 100%. See the damaul3b page for info.

Jozsef improved his nightmare run on The Black Crypt by yet another second to equal the easy time of 0:19.

The usual way for a demo to appear on the oldest 25 records list is for one of the records on it to be improved and then a slightly newer old demo that's still a record falls onto the list.... That's been happening a lot... the list has been servings it's purpose. But I've got a new way for a demo to show up on the list....and that is finding an old demo that was forgotten. It's so old that it's now the #1 oldest demo on the list! And it's not by me :) It's by Yonatan; it's a nightmare 100% of The Guardhouse in a time of 1:56, 12 seconds faster than the "old" time by Optic. See it's txt file for more info.

And now for some demos done more recently...all of which brought demos onto the list the normal way :)

• I improved my nightmare 100% of r2m1 by just over three minutes to get 4:26.
• Optic improved his nightmare run of p_se_3 by ten seconds to get 0:38.
• He improved his nightmare run of ikspq1 by four seconds to get 1:01.
• And he improved his easy un of The NetherWorld by four seconds as well, to get 1:11.
• Ken improved both of Optic's 100%s on climb by two seconds, getting 1:03 on easy and 1:02 on nightmare.

First off, thanks to planetquake, SDA is the site of the day today! If you've never been here before and wondering what it's about, check out the misc info section first and then go to the Quake button to find thousands of speed demos for all official Quake levels and many levels created by users. If you've ever seen and enjoyed any of the Quake done Quick demos and productions, then you're sure to like the demos here too.

The new demos this time is the nightmare 100% marathon through ep4, by Marlo. Note that this is not the ep4 section from his big 86:48 all of Quake marathon (make sure you get that...). It is the slightly faster part from one of his earlier attempts. The time is 25:16, 1:20 faster than the previous time.

This must be a busy time for most people, perhaps because of school or something.... but I have my usual amount of free time as I still dont have a summer job. Today I improved Matthias's old nightmare 100% of mexx10b by 2:29 to get a time of 4:53, and giving me all four records on that level.

I haven't heard anything from Will, he must have fallen into a black hole or something.... so I can't say what's going on with Run of the Week.

10 more of my keyboard demos that are still records that is :)

Thomas did three 100% demos:

• He improved Martin's easy 100% of e1m8 by two seconds to get the time under one minute: 0:59.
• He improved my (keyboard) nightmare 100% of e1m8 by 21 seconds to get 1:25. That's more than I expected that one to be improvable by.
• He improved his own recent nightmare 100% of e2m7 by four seconds to get 2:50.

I did two nightmare demos:

• I improved my (keyboard) nightmare 100% of hip2m3 by 33 seconds to get 4:21.
• I also improved Matthias's nightmare run of mexx10b by an even two minutes to get 2:12.

And two other custom demos:

• Optic improved his easy run of mntbase2 by three seconds to get 0:55.
• Daniel Magnusson improved Optic's easy run of Far Beyond Reality by three seconds to get 0:58.

Here's my promised demo update :)

Alexander Osipov took over bbelief1, improving all four records:

• 0:15 for the easy run, one second faster than Marlo.
• 1:40 for the easy 100%, two seconds faster than Ilkka.
• 0:16 for the nightmare run, one second faster than Marlo.
• 1:59 for the nightmare 100%, three seconds faster than Marlo.

I did four demos:

• Since nobody else wanted to (or couldn't figure out how), I did the easy 100% of a3 in 3:40.
• I got that nightmare 100% of r2m4 that I mentioned good enough... I got a time of 5:42, which is 2:31 faster than Tim.
• I improved my easy run of mexx10b by 29 seconds to get 1:40.
• I also improved Matthias's easy 100% of mexx10b by 55 seconds to get 3:15.

Optic only did one demo for this update... he must be sick :)

• He improved my easy 100% of r1m3 by 20 seconds to get 2:09

And finally, Jozsef improved his nightmare run on The Black Crypt by one second to get 0:20. He used up all but his last 1 point of health here...

Today's planetquake pic of the day is about "classic quake" as it has come to be known, and how there's nothing new with it anymore.... Hmm, well I seem to recall about 50 demos sent in per week to this site all on classic Quake :) So if you miss your classic Quake, why not try a little speedrunning?

I'll have an update with demos up a little later...

Small update for you...
First we have three more demos from crazy dude Optic, all of which are improvments to demos that were on "the list":

• He improved my old keyboard nightmare 100% of h2m5 by a large 1:12 to get 2:43. Only 12 of my keyboard demos left...
• Easy run of hayduke1 in 0:30, a two seconds improvment.
• Nightmare run of The Bastardry in 0:23, a one second improvment.

And four demos from me, three of which are "the list" improvements:

• Easy 100% of r2m3 in 2:10, 17 seconds faster.
• Nightmare 100% of r2m3 in 2:55, 41 seconds faster.
• Easy 100% of bbelief7 in 0:41, five seconds faster and extremely optimized :)
• Nightmare run of r2m1 in 2:30, which is 1:27 faster than Stefan...
• I've improved Tim's nightmare 100% of r2m4 by over 1:45 but it's not good enough yet, so there's no demo on this dot :)

I simply couldn't come up with any better headline, but it describes this update pretty well, though. Just guess what is coming...

Optic, the one who has sent clearly over 600 demos to SDA already, doesn't seem to stop. During the last couple of days, he has produced seven demos for the Prodigy Special Edition plus two demos for other maps:

• Prodigy map 1, Nightmare run in 0:44 - Seven seconds faster than Gunnar's last surviving record :|
• Prodigy map 2, Easy run in 0:57 - Four seconds faster than Stefan.
• Prodigy map 2, Nightmare run in 1:00 - Nine seconds faster than Nolan.
• Prodigy map 3, Easy run in 0:25 - Two seconds faster than his ancient record.
• Prodigy map 3b, Easy run in 0:28 - Four seconds faster than Evan.
• Prodigy map 3b, Nightmare run in 0:33 - Nine seconds faster than Matthias.
• Prodigy map 4, Nightmare run in 0:59 - 20 seconds faster than Nolan.
• Then the other two demos. First he did Numb Nimbus, easy 100% in 4:15 - Filling the tables.
• Secondly he improved his old Easy 100% of Hip2M5 by 11 seconds, getting 1:28. Nice job Justin... :)

Demos by others:

• Thomas Bergendorff recorded Nightmare 100% of Damaul3b in 0:51. Note! Thomas only gets 1/2 secrets. He says in the .txt that it might be possible to get both of them. Anyone got the skillz to do that?
• Martin Selinus did Map 2 in the Black episode in 0:56 - Easy run, 7 seconds faster than Carl Tholin.

That's about all this time. I moved some news from the front page to the Old news.

Hey, I've got three brand spankin new marathon demos for you.... over two hours worth of quake demos just from them :) First we have:

The biggest improvement ever!

Hey remember that 3 hours long nightmare 100% marathon through all of Quake? Well for those who watched it, you saw that it was very cautious playing... Well, Marlo Galinski has never heard of the word "caution"... he did the same marathon in a blazing fast 86:48. This is One hour, 40 minutes and 4 seconds faster than Tim's demo :) Or for those of you who like improvements in whole seconds.... 6004 seconds! It's only 14 minutes slower than the original Qd100Q, and of course he had to do it all in one sitting... He's been trying it for a while as his txt file says. Make sure you get this.... come on, it's only 7.5 MB! :P

The other marathons are by me:

• Nightmare 100% of hip3 in 17:16.
• Easy 100% of Beyond Belief in the same exact friggin time..... 17:16. Yes you can do marathons of Beyond Belief... but before you do you should get the updated BBStats as in the process of making it I found a dumb kill related bug in it....

And a few custom level demos as well:

• Thomas Bergendorff improved Matthias's easy 100% on dxm by 34 seconds to get 1:54.
• Justin Redmond did the first easy 100% on damaul3b, in a time of 0:49. Note that we determined that it's impossible to get the one secret....
• Ken improved both his 100%s on dma1... first getting 0:25 on easy, then managing 0:24 on nightmare! So he went back and did 0:24 on easy as well :)
• Jozsef improved Optic's nightmare run on The Black Crypt by one second to get 0:21.
• My h3m1 demo from my marathon above improves the current record by Carl by 14 seconds so it is available separate, in a time of 3:28.

Run of the Week results and new contest up. Check it out. In other news, I am about to go and buy a sandwich.

Just a note to remind you that RotW demos are now due today, at 2300 CET. Thanks for the entries I've received so far, results will be up tomorrow afternoon along with RotW7.

Thanks to Matthias Belz, I have more of my old keyboard demos, that are no longer records, for you to laugh at :) Among the highlights include my original NH on e1m6, in 1:53 (current time is 0:53); My NR of e1m7 in 0:48 (current time is 0:29); and my NH of e4m1 in 1:53 (current time is 1:09). To save you trouble if you want to watch my old demos to see how bad I was back then, I put them all up in one 1.9 mb zip file.

And I can't forget the new demos too:

• Thomas Stubgaard improved another one of my keyboard demos that was still a record, the nightmare 100% of e2m7, by 50 seconds, to get a time of 2:54.
• Optic improved both of my runs on r2m3, first the easy run by seven seconds to get 1:30.
• Then he improved the nightmare run by 14 seconds to get 1:42.
• Optic also improved his nightmare run of ikspq3 by one second to get 0:17.
• Martin Selinus improved Optic's easy 100% of e4m2 by one second to get 1:11.
• Martin also improved the easy run on the Guardhouse by one second to get 0:23.
• Martin also did the easy 100% of the Guardhouse, improving it by two seconds to get 0:51.

Six new demos for you, all on nightmare skill, three of which are improvments to demos on the oldest list:

• Optic improved his run of r1m6 by five seconds to get 1:25.
• Optic also improved his run of bbelief3 by nine seconds to get 0:59.
• Justin Redmond improved his run of damaul3b by one more second to get 0:28.
• Thomas Bergendorff improved Matthias's 100% of dxm by 39 seconds, to a time that is now faster than the easy 100%... 2:18.
• Tim Doherty improved his 100% of r2m4 by a large amount, 2:43, to bring the time down to 8:13.
• I improved my old keyboard 100% of h3m3 by 42 seconds to get 2:24. Only 14 keyboard demos left...

Look, I can't help it. Alcohol needs me. Without me the five largest breweries in the world would probably go bust.

Misc page updated

There's biogs for Ilkka and myself up on the Misc page now, it was some time coming, and there are some other slight restructures there, too. I don't know whether restructures is a word, but it sound about right.

Great, here's too demos that I've done...

• Scourge of Armagon's hipdm1 in 0:38. 0wned Nolan a big time :)
• Then, The Mining Complex easy 100% in 1:50. I just had to have one record for my own map... :) Ten seconds faster than Marlo.

And Will, "being drunbk" is no excuse! That's proved now...... hehe

Some time to sit behind the computer! The sun is shining like mad outside, I've got a fair amount of cold beers stacked away in the fridge, listening to some crazy Bad Company dubplates, and tonight there's a mad party in town, what else can you ask for!!

Right. Just because I'm in a f@cking good mood, I'm quickly updating these here marathon runs. Robert Axelsson sent me a demo a long time ago, but because I'm blind I overlooked & deleted the thing. Sorry mate. Anyway, he and Alex did a nice easy coop run of Episode 3 in 2:57.

Ravage and Shine also sent in another demo: they improved Robert & Alex' easy coop marathon run of Episode 1 by 12 seconds to get 2:30.

And I'm the crazy person who did it... I'm talking about the last two holes in the Rogue tables, of course. I've done a total of five demos on r2mX levels in the past few days:

• Easy 100% of r2m1 in 3:49, filling the hole.
• Easy 100% of r2m4 in 4:43, which improves Tim's previous time by 1:49!
• Nightmare run of r2m4 in 2:31, only 40 seconds slower than the easy run... quite quick considering the amount of monsters in your way... This finally fills the rogue tables :)
• Easy 100% of r2m5 in 3:24, eight seconds faster than Optic.
• I now have all seven EH records for the r2mX levels... so it's kind of appropriate that I also improved my marathon through the episode. I got 23:38, which is 5 minutes and 6 seconds faster than my previous time.

Dont think that I'm done with the 2nd Rogue episode yet :)

Now that I've pimped my own demos, other people have made some too :P
Optic improved three of the demos on the oldest 25 list:

• He got 1:41 for the easy 100% of h1m4, seven seconds faster than his previous demo.
• He took away another of Yonatan Donner's surviving records, the nightmare 100% of h2m4 by improving it by 1:55 to get 3:17.
• And he improved my nightmare run of mexx9a by 18 seconds to get 2:00.

We finally got some demos on the new level Dextromethorphan:

• Matthias Belz did the easy 100% in 2:28.
• He also did the nightmare 100% in 2:57.
• I discovered that Mr Shambler and Scard did a nightmare run coop demo on this level, and I didn't know about it when I added the level... so I added it now, the time is 0:10.

And two more demos...

• Markus Taipale did his first nightmare 100% by improving Optic's record on e2m2 by 21 seconds to get 1:32. Nice way to 'start' :)
• Daniel Magnusson filled the hole for the nightmare run of The NetherWorld by getting a time of 1:52, only 19 seconds faster than the 100%.

Arrgh, I spent almost two hours just uploading files for this update... I can't wait until September when I'll have a decent connection...

Huge apologies to Maxim because I forgot his contest entry. He got 1:04 which puts him 3rd in the 100% section. It won't happen again.

Yup, RotW is back. Normal service should be resumed. There are some good contests coming up, too, if my computer will start to behave itself. Go and take a look at the results from contest 5.

Damn you Jesse, you made me bump my head! :)
Here's your usual assortment of demos:

• Peter improved my nightmare 100% of e1m4 by 27 seconds to get a time of 2:43.
• I improved Will's nightmare 100% of r2m6 (you knew that was coming, didn't you?) by 1:04, to get 4:01.
• I also improved my easy run of r2m6 by seven seconds to get 2:29.
• Attila has improved the easy run of e3m7 by... uh, the usual two seconds, to get 0:44.
• Justin Redmond improved Marlo's nightmare run of damaul3b by one second to get 0:29.
• Daniel Magnusson aka Max Rebo filled two holes in the custom tables, first doing a nightmare run of Carnage in 1:47. This level is very hard to survive on nightmare, this is only 19 seconds faster than the NH.
• He also did the nightmare run of The fatal place in a time of 0:58, only ten seconds slower than the easy run.
• Two weeks ago, Jozsef improved his nightmare run of e2m6 by one second to get 1:16. I put the demo in the tables, but forgot to mention it in the news... sorry Jozsef.
• Ravage and Shine improved the coop easy run of e2m5 by two seconds to get 0:20.

Just some worthless info for you, in the month of April there was over 27 MB worth of demos added to SDA!

Haven't updated any demos in ages, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to post this marathon I received today (Nolan will probably faint again when he sees I've updated :)

• Easy coop marathon run of Episode 2 in 3:36 by Ravage & Shine, that's no less than 22 seconds faster than Robert & Alexander.

In further news: the RDE update that's due has been delayed a bit. Don't worry, progress has been good, especially since Ilkka helped me solve some of the route problems when he visited me last week (which was just mad fun btw).

I've changed Run of the Week slightly. But don't worry, it's still going on. Head over and take a look.

7 out of the 9 demos in this update are 100% demos so that's the reason for my strange subject...

• Optic did an easy 100% of The Darkness Within in a time of 1:39.
• Optic also improved one of my ancient keyboard nightmare 100% demos, the one on r1m2, by 42 seconds to get 3:06.
• I improved one of those ancient demos of mine too... the nightmare 100% of hipdm1. Only by nine seconds though as I didn't try very much; got a time of 2:24.
• I destr...err improved another of will's demos... the easy 100% of r2m6, by 52 seconds, to get 3:12. More high quality :)
• Ravage improved the easy 100% of jzblue_4 by one second to get a time of 0:13 using a boost from Chthon's dying throw...
• Thomas Stubgaard improved his recent nightmare 100% of e3m6 by another 27 seconds to get a time of 4:36. That's like more than two minutes faster than my original time for this :P
• Arturo/Ken improved Marlo's nightmare 100% of dma1 by one second to get 0:26.

I can't forget the two plain-old-runs that were sent in:

• Robert improved Steiner's easy run of e1m8 by three seconds to get 0:30.
• Optic improved Valeriy's nightmare run on The Darkness Within by six seconds to get 0:50.

Fileplanet is down as I do this update (gee, that's a suprise) so I can't even be sure that the links I put in are correct... if they turn out to be borked you can find the demos through the table links of course. For now you may be able to get the demos from http://ftp1.gamespy.com/pub/cdrom/sda/filename.zip or from the cdrom link above.

Well, I guess it's me who's really slacking. Run of the Week just takes a helluva lot of time, especially when I have to come up with a completely new map with new QuakeC etc. It's much harder to do at uni too, as there is so much more other work and I don't have such good access to computers as I do at home. Anyway, that's one reason why RotW has been delayed for the first time. There are others, but blah blah I'm sure you don't want to hear any more excuses. There are some people who haven't sent me their demos again, If you can't do so, at least tell me the time and I'll believe you and put the demo up when you have the time to send it.

This will probably be the last in my series of mad updates, as today I leave university for the summer... I'll have more free time probably but I won't be online as much... I'll still update though, so don't worry :)

• damaul3b is quite popular for the run, several improvments for the easy run have been sent in, but the first one to be sent since the last udpate, was the fastest. Marlo got a time of 0:26!
• Marlo also got 0:30, for the nightmare run, five seconds faster.
• Stefan has filled one of the last holes in the Rogue tables, doing an easy 100% of r1m7 in 3:24.
• The war over e3m6 easy 100% may be over but Thomas has now improved Daniel's nightmare 100% of e3m6 by 1:23 (!) to get 5:03. Is this the start of another war?
• A new player named Valeriy Burmistrov has sent in a nightmare run on the new map, The Darkness Within, in a time of 0:56.

Attila and Peter have done five coop demos on jzblue maps:

• Easy run of #2 in 0:08, a one second improvement.
• The rest are all on #4...Easy run in 0:04, another one second improvment.
• Nightmare run in 0:04 as well.
• 100%s in 0:09 on both easy and nightmare; interesting how they do these.

Yup, it's happened again. My email account has gone over the limit, and I've lost some of the demos for RotW. I'm not amused. I have most of them, but at the moment I don't know which, and I don't want to say because I'd rather keep things secret for as long as possible (although you guys are probably communicating over ICQ anyways). Please mail me to them again ASAP, everyone. I have a cunning plan to make sure that this never happens again (delete my entire account before checking my mail!). Again, sorry.

You'd think I'd have better things to do during the week of my final exams than update sda all the time and make demos on the side... but I dont! :)

• I got the 4th slot on r2m7 by doing a nightmare 100% in 4:19, an amazing 2:37 faster than Will :)
• Martin Selinus made three demos, starting with an easy run of e4m2, in a time of 0:31, one second faster than Ilkka.
• He also improved my easy 100% of e1m8 by three seconds to get 1:01.
• And he also improved Optic's easy run of Beyond belief5 by one second (Optic's demo was on the 25 oldest list) to get 0:23.
• Marlo has done his first DoE record by improving Optic's recent easy run of r1m6 by two seconds to get 1:10.
• Robert and Rickard did the first coop on e2m7, a nightmare run in 0:35, one second faster than Robert's single player record.

Suicide Nation craze?

Five demos on damaul3 and damaul3b, definitly the most popular among the new maps, as some have yet to receive any submissions.

• Justin Redmond improved Thomas Bergendroff's easy run of damaul3b by three seconds to get 0:30.
• Thomas B did a nightmare run of damaul3b in 0:35.
• Marlo filled the rest of the holes for damaul3, getting 2:07 for the easy run, 2:07 for the nightmare run, and 2:32 for the easy 100%.

OK, I do actually have some homework to do, so no updates until tomorrow night now :)

A total of 7 more demos for you:

• Alexander Osipov has improved Optic's easy 100% of e3m5 by two seconds to get 1:34. Alexander now has all four records for e3m5.
• Robert Axelsson was apparently not satisifed with his 0:33 for the nightmare run of e1m8 as he improved it again, getting 0:32, which is now one second faster than the easy run!
• Markus Taipale improved my easy 100% of e2m5 by seven seconds to get 1:28.
• Thomas Bergendorff improved Justin Redmond's easy run of Suicide Nation (b) by 17 seconds to get 0:33.
• I improved Optic's easy run of r2m7 by two seconds, getting 0:56.
• I also improved Optic's nightmare run of r2m7 by two seconds, getting 0:57.
• And I also did the easy 100% of r2m7, improving Will's old demo by 1:27 (!!) The new time is 4:04, another one of my high quality 100% demos, I think :)

We've got a fairly large number of demos considering the last update was just 24 hours ago... Everybody says I've been updating like a madman... one reason is because the updates have gotten easy for me :)

Ilkka decided to be a meanie and improve Martin's easy 100% of e1m6 by two seconds to reclaim his record... he got a time of 0:49.

Optic improved three more of his demos that were on the 25 oldest list, but this time it brought three of my demos on to replace them instead of his...

• Nightmare run of h3m4 in 1:22, a nine second improvement.
• Easy 100% of r1m2 in 2:24, 19 seconds faster.
• Easy 100% of r1m4 in 2:50, 14 seconds faster.

A few demos have been sent in for the new levels that I added:

• Marlo improved Shambler's easy run of Numb Nimbus by four seconds to get 0:48. I forgot to mention when I added it, but the route for this level includes an ogre grenade jump and a vore ball jump!
• Marlo also did an easy 100% of Suicide Nation in 2:32.
• Justin Redmond did the easy run for Suicide Nation (b) in a time of 0:51. Hmm, he sent in a 0:50. as I was doing this update....

Ravage has a suprise... he improved both runs of jzblue_4 by one second to get 0:09 on both easy and nightmare.

Stefan filled one of the harder holes in the custom tables by doing a nightmare 100% of p_se_xxx, the secret arena in Prodigy Special Edition. He got 1:32.

There's two demos from me as well:

• I improved Optic's easy run of r2m4 by two seconds to get 1:51.
• I also did a nightmare 100% marathon through the first episode of Hipnotic, getting a pretty quick time of 14:23.

Just a quick update to show the demos that have arrived in my mailbox since the last (level adding) update:

• Marlo has done a nightmare 100% through the jzblue episode (I thought everybody had forgot about it). He got a time of 2:21.
• Shine has done "The usual 2 seconds improvement" for the easy run of e3m7, getting 0:46.
• Optic improved his easy run of h3m4 (was on the 25 list) by seven seconds to get 1:08.
• And for the first demo on the new maps, Optic improved Shambler's run on darkness by six seconds to get 0:48.

The download link for Numb Nimbus was wrong in the last update, but I fixed it...

The new levels I'm adding aren't going to optimized as quickly as the last set I added was... They're a bit longer. Not ridiculously long though, so it should still be easy to fill them up with decent demos at least.

Before I get to them, I made three demos to fill some of the remaining holes in the custom level tables. They're pretty good, but shouldn't be too hard to beat...

• Easy 100% of Missile Bunker Bravo 7 in 1:29.
• Nightmare run of House of Traps in 0:54.
• Nightmare 100% of House of Traps in 2:45

Now for the new levels. Mr Shambler has done easy runs of four of them from his site, but just like last time I'm sure they can be beaten :)

• A3 - The Journey Home by Alex Moore (pingu). Shambler did an easy run in 1:26 which includes several tricks.
• Numb Nimbus by Christian Grawert. Shambler did easy run in 0:52.
• Suicide Nation (two maps) by John "DaMaul" McCann. Both maps can be run separately. Shambler did an easy coop run with Scrad of the first map in 0:19.
• The Darkness Within by Tim Elek. Shambler did easy run in 0:54.
• Dextromethorphan by Zied Rieke. Shambler did easy run in 0:26 with an awsome trick.

Have fun.... and be aware that I won't add any more levels until these get filled up to my satisfaction :)

It seems the page listing the oldest 25 demos is serving it's purpose as Optic has improved two more of the demos that were on there (of course that just brought two more of his other demos on to replace them...)

• Easy run of r1m6 in 1:12, three seconds faster than his previous record.
• Easy run of r1m7 in 1:30, seven seconds faster than my time.

I have improved two of Optic's easy 100% demos:

• I got 1:47 on e3m7, two seconds better.
• I also improved his demo on hip1m2 by 24 seconds to get 2:13

Old news recovered

SDA's news from September of 1998 through December of 1999 has been recovered from the broken database and has been put up at reallyoldnews.html. If you weren't around for that part of sda then it should make an interesting read for you... and if you were around, then it will bring back memories :)

Since Will's not on ICQ anymore, the only way we seem to be able to exchange information is here on SDA :) Speaking of Will, I have made a demo that shows that it is possible to get a score of 205 in the recent Run of the Week. I used some cheats, but it should be possible without them... see the text file for more detail. It's just to show what could have been done....

On to the demos!

• Robert Axelsson has improved two of his recent nightmare runs. First, he got 0:33 for the nightmare run of e1m8, one second better than his last demo.
• He also improved the nightmare run of e3m4 by another second to get 0:40.
• Martin Selinus has improved Ilkka's easy 100% of e1m6 by two seconds, getting a time of 0:51.
• Optic has improved what used to be demo #2 on the list of the 25 oldest records... it was one of Yonatan Donner's few surviving records, the nightmare 100% of hip3m2. Optic improved it by 21 seconds and got 2:57.
• Ken improved his recent easy 100% of dma1 by two seconds to get 0:26.
• He also sent in a 27 for the nightmare 100%, but Marlo beat him to it, getting 0:27 as well.
• Robert and Rickard did two coop demos of doom2_08 (Tricks and Traps). They got 0:20 for the easy run, four seconds faster than the single player record, and 0:22 for the nightmare run, three seconds faster than the single player.

Note to Will: I look forward to it :)

Sorry about the late RotW results to all you Europeans who are in bed by now (or out getting drunk like real men should). But they're up now, so go take a look. And Nolan, when SpeedCon comes, I'm gonna make sure you get very drunk =)

I recently posted an easy 100% on r2m2 by myself... well I've done all three of the other demos for the level as well:

• Easy run in 1:04, 20 seconds faster than my old record.
• Nightmare run in 1:32, new.
• Nightmare 100% in 2:22, 34 seconds faster than my old record.

So I did all four demos within a week.... similar to what I did back in March of 98 on r2m3. And since I still have those four records, and these are the Elemental Fury levels, then as the title says, I rule the elements :)

There's been five other demos sent in since my last update, even though it was less than seven hours ago!:

• Robert Axelsson has improved Optic's nightmare run of e3m4 by one second to get 0:41.
• He also improved Chris Longden's nightmare run of e2m7 by one second, ending up with 0:36.
• Ken did the easy 100% of dma1 in 0:28 as well, one second faster than Marlo.
• Marlo and FAB sent in two coop demos, which were aparantly sent in three months ago but were misplaced... They Improved Ilkka/Juho's easy 100% of e1m6 by three secodns to get 0:29.
• They also improved Ilkka/Juho's easy 100% of e4m1 by two seconds to get 0:37.

More levels may be coming as soon as this weekend, but don't hold me to that...

Oh, and Will, being "drunbk" is no excuse :)

Because I'm too drunbk.

I'm sorry to say that neither Thomas nor Daniel has improved that easy 100% of e3m6... and I can't do an update until they do because It's just not worth it without one....

oh what the hell I'll do it anyway :)

• Robert Axelsson has improved Steiner Vatne's 1997 record for the nightmare run of e1m8 by two seconds, getting a time of 0:34.
• Optic improved his recently posted, 10 month old, nightmare 100% demo of tspe by 18 seconds to get 1:25.
• Thomas Berfendorff improved his nightmare 100% of The Disturbed by 19 seconds to get 1:35. This is another nice Quake level...
• Arturo Garcia Lasca (aka Ken) has improved Marlo's nightmare 100% of Teleporters (dma1) by one second to get 0:28.
• Markus Taipale has acheived the unthinkable and managed a time of 0:04 for the easy run of jzblue_3, one second faster.... wait a minute, I figured this was possible when I first posted the levels... see, I was right :)

The longest demo ever!

I've been meaning to mention this for a while but kept forgetting. Back in January, Tim Doherty did a nightmare 100% marathon through all of Quake... He managed the incredible time of 3 hours, 6 minutes and 52 seconds. Well.... I suppose if you have a few hours to kill and are bored you could try to improve it!

First up, Attila's RotW3 entry is available. Next up, just to clarify a point I thought was obvious about contest #4, but which is apparently not. You have to run the contest on the skarena.bsp provided. Not DM2, E1M3 or any other level =)

Oh will the stress never end? This is the first time I've managed to get into PQ since Friday. I've got Ilkka's long awaited demo, but my email deleted Attila's. Attila, do not take this personally! If you send it in I will put it up, though I'll understand if you can't be bothered. Oh well, life goes on....

Oh will the improvements never end! (hey I'm not complaining) It's Daniel's pturn again and he sent in 2:20, which is eight seconds faster. If you think that's amazing then wait until I tell you that three hours later in sent in a 2:15!!! Oh and don't think it still can't be improved.... I believe it's Thomas' turn now :)

In other news, I have filled another hole in the Rogue tables, doing an easy 100% of r2m2 in 1:46.

What is an update anymore without an improvment to the easy 100% of e3m6? Thomas has improved Daniel's most recent demo by four more seconds to get 2:28!

There's two 'new' demos on tspe:

• Optic did a nightmare run in 0:27.
• Optic also did a nightmare 100% in 1:43, four seconds faster than Stefan. What's strange is that he did this demo 10 months ago... I dont know why considering the level was just added a few weeks ago. He must have been bored or something.

Optic also improved Matthias' nightmare run of From out of Nowhere by 18 seconds to get 1:27. I recommend you get this level if you're never seen it.

Robert Axelsson has taken over hipend:

• He improved Lauri's easy run by one second to get 0:18.
• He improved my nightmare run by one second as well, getting 0:38.
• He and Rickard did a coop nightmare run in 0:23, the first coop on this level.

And finally there are two self-improvments from Markus:

• He improved his easy 100% of e2m2 by two seconds and got 1:00.
• He did the nightmare run of e4m6 one second faster and got 0:47.

I does not know what to say. The results are up. Chaos reigns. They would have been up earlier but I has been watching Ali G and sort of lost track of time. Bo! And let us speak no more of RotW3. Respec!

Yup, you've guessed it. My email account went over the limit and I lost all the RotW demos you sent in, again. I'll still try and do the results on time, but if I haven't received your demo again by that time (going on who sent them in today), I'll put you in the results, but you'll have to wait until that person sends the demo in to get it. Sorry again, I hate it as much as you do. Send.

This update contains demos that could be considered big improvements from the previous demos... as well as few new entries:

• Stefan did both 100%s for tspe. He got 1:19 on easy and 1:47 on nightmare.
• Thomas Bergendorff sent in a 0:40 for the nightmare 100% of jzblue_1 to improve Stefan by two seconds, but Robert Axelsson sent in a 0:35! Seven seconds faster than Stefan... big improvement?
• The war on e3m6 continues as Daniel has sent in a 2:32, which is seven seconds faster than Thomas' last demo and a total of 20 seconds faster than the time was a little over a week ago. Big improvement?
• I have done my first marathon demo... I did easy 100% through Rogue episode 2. Tim Doherty had done it previously in a time of 40:40, but I got a time of 28:44, which is 11 minutes and 56 seconds faster. How's that for a big improvment!

Just got back to University. Haven't been able to get at my email all week because NTMail isn't letting me in. Anyway, because of this, I've only managed to receive one RotW entry. So please resend your demo (I can get them at Ajare@PQ now). Sorry about this, it's been a real pain for me, too. Ilkka, yours is the demo I got, so you don't need to resend. I'll be doing the results at the normal time though, which will be 8PM CET so try to get them to me before then. I'm no longer on ICQ, btw.